The Middle East for years has been a controversial geographical region. From regional disputes to militant activities and to state funded terrorism, everythig collectively moved towards destroying the peace of the region. One of the major reasons why this belt keeps getting way more attention than other regions is the resources it shows off.
There is no doubt
that the area is rich--both in terms of wealth and land. But given the blessing
it has, some nations try to bring peace to the region and extend a helping hand
to the more vulnerable communities while the others believe in power. On top the
last of the power hungry rulers is Qatar.
Qatar is
notorious for its behaviour in the region that has often led to increase in
violence and human rights abuses in the region. And it is only fair that given
the current circumstances that the world takes stand and refuses to turn a
blind eye towards Qatar and take a step that curbs the violent activities it
has been doing.
The power of this
particular nation can be analysed from the fact that it is relatively a smaller
country and to think of it is even smaller than Egypt and yet commands huge
global presence for its size. Why do you think this is happening? Is it
absolute monarchy or is it wealth?
To answer it in
the simplest way, it is to do with a spoiled leadership that is hungry for
power and dominance not just regionally but globally. It is using its wealth to
buy the United States and other western countries to establish power over other
regions. But the most necessary area where immediate attention has to be given
is terrorism.
To think of that till date, Qatar remains one of the latest funders of Hamas, it is extremely threatening. It is using its wealth to sponsor terrorsim, risking lives of millions of people in the country as well as the entire region. Most of the world is aware of what had happened during the Palestine take over by Hamas. It was nothing but blood shed all over the area and Israel was the one to be blamed for it.
One of the things
with Qatar is that it indulges itself in between two countries and further
threatens peace. It keeps funding and sheltering a dangerous militant group
like Hamas despite knowing that it belongs to an extremist agenda. It doesn’t
just fund them but even welcomes Hamas leaders in Doha and one on top of their
guest list was Khaled Meshaal, the former chief of Hamas’s political wing.
Another peace
endangering group is the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has universally been
recognised as one of the most dangerous outlets still active in the Middle
East. The Egypt based militant group is hugely feared by European countries who
are now cutting off all contact with nations having slightest of interactions
with it.
Even though it
has been recognised as a terrorist group by other arab nations like UAE,
Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria and Saudi Arabia, nations like Qatar continue to
support the group and fund it for ulterior motives in vulnerable countries.
Doha is also using state owned media house Al-Jazeera to spread rumours and
promote anti-semotic sentiments in the region.
It is aware that
if Israel uses its full potential against it, Qatar might be the one to suffer
the blow because of the number of countries backing Israel. Hence, the Qatari
leadership is trying to promote hatred against Jews and make the whole of Arab
world against it. Hezbollah is another group that is being supported by the
country. Hezbollah is an Iranian backed militia group that is known for
spreading violence in the region.
In European
countries, it is using religious institutions to transfer funds in the name of
donations. National NGOs are involving themselves in transferring money to
units operating as madrasas and that money is being used to plan attacks on
other institutions representing other religions.
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